Snapshot · The Charlie Kirk Show
Blake Neff observed that the U.S. Constitution is the oldest written constitution still in effect anywhere in the world, by quite a long shot.
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Blake Neff, noting the 250-year milestone and the oldest constitution still in effect anywhere, raises the sharpest challenge of the episode: America has absorbed an unprecedented volume of immigration, and the resulting cultural stress is visible in political platforms that explicitly call the founding evil and win elections. He asks Arnn directly: how do you build a coalition that continues to admire the founding documents as divinely inspired, when a substantial and growing faction is eager to disavow them? The question sets up Arnn's extended diagnosis of the ideological crisis — German historicism, progressive thought, and the administrative state — that follows.
German historicism claims everything changes with time and that we can master the historical process to remake society. C.S. Lewis called this 'The Abolition of Man.' The progressives — Dewey, Wilson, Goodnow — turned science from a way of knowing into a way of manipulating. The result: an administrative state that no one elected and that now makes most of America's laws.
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